The badly spelled letters claim to be from the FSA
, with one in particular claiming to be the result of an investigation between the agency and a local council, and after reporting supposed instances of food safety breaches, demands payment of £1k within seven working days.

The FSA has said that as it is not the ‘national enforcement authority for food law’, it would never send such letters out, and advises recipients to ignore the payment request and notify local police as soon as possible.